Computer Security Expert Helped FBI Reduce Impact of SoBig.F Worm

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/27/technology/27VIRU.html Mikko Hypponen, an antivirus researcher at F-Secure, a computer security firm based in Finland, and his research team helped the FBI prevent the SoBig.F computer worm attack from being far worse than it was, The New York Times reports. As Hypponen and his researchers worked with their initial sample of the virus, sent to them by a concerned customer, they discovered a list of Internet protocol addresses linked to home computers in the United . . .

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